Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

WHAT WE DO
At Shef, we are building a homemade food marketplace. We believe in providing the shefs in our community (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents, retirees and out-of-work restaurant chefs) the opportunity to make a meaningful income by doing what they love! We also believe that every person should have access to a wholesome, home-cooked meal at an affordable price. Building a community devoted to economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity -- that's why we started Shef.

We are committed to reimagining home cooking around the country to empower everyone to make meaningful incomes by feeding their neighbor and have raised over $100m from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and M13, as well as founders and executives from Instacart, TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and Yelp. We have a ton of exciting work ahead of us and are excited to have you join us!

ROLE
As a senior software engineer in this hybrid position, at Shef you will be responsible for building delightful experiences for consumers and chefs across the country. You will optimize the shopping experience for our consumers, and build out micro-entrepreneurship tools for our shefs to run their own businesses. If we succeed, you will have fundamentally changed how people purchase food and the variety of healthy, affordable, and authentic food that they have access to.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Think like a Product Manager - Discovering insights, opportunities, and requirements for new features
• Build new features that delight our consumers and help our Shefs grow their own businesses
• Own your code
• Monitor, analyze, and iterate on features
• You will be a key team member, helping to build out our consumer and Shef facing websites
• Use analytics to identify areas of impact and new product ideas
• Report directly to the Head of Engineering

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience with React
• Experience with Typescript

PREFERRED

• Experience with GraphQL + PostgreSQL
• Very interested in ownership and product
• Highly motivated
• Self-starter who is smart, driven, and hardworking
• Excited about Shef's mission of unlocking the home-cooked food industry
• Desire to own a part of the product from end to end - looking at data, coming up with ideas, spec'ing and launching new products

Shef is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to build a team that reflects the communities we serve, and a workplace that nurtures and empowers unique identities and experiences. We are committed to advancing equity in a tech industry that has often fallen short. We strongly encourage applications from BIPOC (Black; Indigenous; People of Color), women, LGBTQ+, and other individuals who are underrepresented in the industry, across color, religion, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, gender and sexual identity.

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